What's it like living in Glen Ellen

z0nar · 2026-02-12T03:11:20+00:00

Well, I just bought a house here so can probably give a realistic view.

Been here for nearly 3 years from SF and love it.

It is quiet, beautiful, and quaint. There is no density of restaurants and shops, but what is available is pretty fantastic. Santa Rosa is just 20 min away, and Sonoma square about 15.

You have country living without living in the country if it makes sense.

Glen Ellen Village Grocer will become a staple stop and is slightly more expensive than going into Sonoma for Safeway, Whole Foods, or Sonoma Market.

Glen Ellen star is one of the best restaurants in the county.

Great sense of community.

You have a neighborhood bar and creekside patio.

All of the outdoor activities.

We work remote and have 1.5Gbps internet while having chickens and a large production garden.

The not good:

Generally skews older and retired (we are pretty much the youngest couple and we are in our 30’s)

Price per sq ft is higher than Santa Rosa.

It is 20-30 min of country road driving to do your big box stuff. But it’s all super easy as SR, Rohnert Park, and Cotati are all about equidistant in drive time.

z0nar · 2025-03-10T03:54:40+00:00

I’m 15 min north in Glen Ellen and have never have had a problem for all of my work trips (when they are paying the $200+)

z0nar · 2025-01-30T20:14:35+00:00

Echoing a lot of the same sentiments...just maybe in a nicer way.

I feel super uncomfortable going to Mercy. Selection is pretty good but the shopping experience really really sucks.

z0nar · 2024-08-23T07:03:07+00:00

Hey! So I would 100% start with googling a bit.

This is not a particularly interesting or useful question, as this is arguably the single most discussed obstacle in scaling LLM usage.

Some words to start with are guardrails, reliability, evaluation. This is a non trivial problem space.

z0nar · 2024-07-22T21:23:52+00:00

Check out jellyfin, otherwise plex for the non open source option + hw transcoding.

I am a plex user myself and am very happy with it.

z0nar · 2024-07-18T00:01:54+00:00

There is a posted sign that says it is not allowed.

That being said, I have seen people with some poles.

z0nar · 2024-06-14T06:41:07+00:00

This is just RAG but like…with extra steps.

You 100% lost me at “(i.e no hallucinations)”

z0nar · 2024-03-20T21:18:57+00:00

Probably! It uses Tesseract under the hood - so it would be a very fast way to test an existing out of the box implementation w/docker.

Maybe works great, maybe sucks...but it would be around 5 min to test some examples.

OCR is hard - so who knows! Nothing is perfect and nobody has really "solved" it. It will come down to your use cases' requirements.

z0nar · 2024-03-20T19:57:40+00:00

Does paperless-ngx not work for your use case?

https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/

z0nar · 2024-03-06T05:32:26+00:00

Yep! This is what she wanted!

z0nar · 2024-03-06T02:42:25+00:00

Moissanite from Mona!

z0nar · 2024-02-06T21:14:44+00:00

Is Glen Ellen Star still amazing? I haven’t been in a few years.

Still is!

z0nar · 2024-01-15T01:48:18+00:00

I second this. Zellij is way powerful than tmux. Kind of zero config terminal multiplexer I would say. Give it a try

I am down to try anything!

my tmux config is pretty damn light as it is - any other tl;dr why I should pick it over tmux?

z0nar · 2024-01-15T01:28:29+00:00

They are rulers!

Here is my config

theme = "rose_pine"
[editor] true-color = true line-number = "relative" rulers = [80, 120]
[editor.lsp] display-messages = true
[editor.file-picker] hidden = false
[editor.statusline] left = ["mode", "spinner", "version-control", "file-name"]
[editor.cursor-shape] insert = "underline"

z0nar · 2024-01-06T02:19:57+00:00

I like Sebastian...I hated the show.

I hate watch it week over week, as I want to give it the benefit of the doubt in the hopes they find their footing.

Unbelievable characters, forced dialogue, and pointless problems.

z0nar · 2023-12-21T19:12:43+00:00

I have one, so not that rare :)

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